Name: Wanderlust Book Club - October 2024
Start: 2024-10-24T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Whiton Memorial Library

Manchester Public Library will have the next meeting of its travel themed book group, the Wanderlust Book Club, on Thursday, October 24th, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. at the Whiton Branch Library on 100 North Main Street.
In this book group, participants travel vicariously through reading a variety of atmospheric books that transport readers to locations around the world…and perhaps beyond. Titles are primarily fiction, with an occasional non-fiction or memoir selection. Meetings are typically held on the third Thursday evening of the month. Our next book, set in Ghana, is “His Only Wife” by Peace Adzo Medie.
Copies of each month’s book are available at both library buildings. This is a free book discussion program and no registration is required. For more information, contact Valerie Kerr at 860-643-2471 or visit the library website at manchesterct.gov/library.
Description from Goodreads.com:
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.”
Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious’s house with his many wives and children. Then one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity—a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man she doesn’t truly know. She acquiesces, but soon realizes that Elikem is not quite the catch he seemed. He sends a stand-in to his own wedding, and only weeks after Afi is married and installed in a plush apartment in the capital city of Accra does she meet her new husband. It turns out that he is in love with another woman, whom his family disapproves of; Afi is supposed to win him back on their behalf. But it is Accra that eventually wins Afi’s heart and gives her a life of independence that she never could have imagined for herself.
A brilliant scholar and a fierce advocate for women’s rights, author Peace Adzo Medie infuses her debut novel with intelligence and humor. For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Candice Carty-Williams, His Only Wife is the story of an indomitable and relatable heroine that illuminates what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world.